Microsoft just released SQL Server 2008 and with that we have also released the golden versions of Microsoft Sync Framework V1 and Sync Services for ADO.Net V2. With this release Sync services now is built on top of the Sync Framework and supports peer...

[ Note : Source for this sample can be downloaded from http://www.maheshwar.net/projects/Sync/DbSyncProviderSample.zip . Just ensure that you modify the connectionstrings in properties\settings file to point to the correct database. This sample is based...

We have released a new sample on our Sync code gallery site that demonstrates use of Sql Express database for offline caching and synchronization purposes. Sync Services for ADO.Net (a.k.a Occasionaly Connected Systems OCS) lets users take a database...

Cross posting from http://maheshwar.net/Blog
Now that Silverlight Beta2 has been released I have upgraded the SL samples on this site to the new build. I have moved the current beta1 samples to a subdirectory under the current sample. Source code...

I have been using Live Mesh for quite some time now as they were our first Silverlight internal customer. Its been a pleasure to work with the Mesh team and its even more fun to be seeing your code being used in real life large scale online app. I have...

After nearly 4 years with Connected Systems, I have decided to move to the Data Replication and Sync team working on the Microsoft Sync Framework . I wanted to post about the Web Proxy features we shipped in Silverlight Beta1 but see that our PM Yavor...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , WebServices Hope everyone had a chance to download and play with the Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 bits. I wanted to put up a quick post detailing the features we have shipped in this Beta. We have shipped total of 5 features split...

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , POX , XmlSerializer , JSON Scott Guthrie laid out all the details regarding Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 this morning and if you haven't had a chance to see the keynote then you can view it from VisitMix site. Scott briefly mentioned...

Mix 2008 is just hours away and I am very excited to talk about all the work we have been doing to get the beta of Silverlight 2 ready. Scott Guthrie already kicked off the information flow with 2 wonderful posts on Silverlight 2 and Blend . We have worked...

Just like that the .Net train continues to move along to the next version of the framework. Microsoft announced on Monday the availability of .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Its the third version of .Net that I had the privilege of working on starting...

After a lot of procrastination I finally got a new blog on my personal domain hosted at http://maheshwar.net/Blog . Thanks to all the people who responded via comments and emails to my earlier post asking for suggestions on domain hosting providers. I...

Microsoft just announced the Messenger IM control . I took a quick look at it and found it to be pretty useful idea and want to test this out on my blog. Sometimes I get email from people who have follow up questions on a blog post and this would be a...

Microsoft is releasing the source code for the framework libraries. Read more about it here . Its not like you couldnt do this earlier. You could always have used .Net Reflector but having the ability to step in to the framework classes while debugging...

In .Net 2.0 (Whidbey), Remoting introduced support for IPC channels. This was a quick way for local machine processes to communicate with objects hosted locally. Now there is a small behavior that users might not be aware of when they are unmarshalling...

One common question I see on Remoting forum is how to configure a proxy to use a particular channel from the set of registered channels for communicating when creating a proxy. For instance consider an Remoting application that exposes both a secure and...

I have always toyed with the idea of having my own domain and I am finally ready to move my blog off to my personal domain. I was searching for good domain hosting providers and wanted to throw the idea out here to see if I could get some good suggestions...

Microsoft recently announced Silverlight at the Mix 07 conference. Now that its released I can freely talk about what I am working on. I am really excited to start working on the connected systems API's for Silverlight 1.1. If you refer to the Silverlight...

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I enabled Driver verifier for Win32k.Sys and the video driver and then reproduce the crash by remotely logging in first and the logging via the main console. After a reboot, I looked at the dump and this time the bugcheck was...

My home desktop running Vista would crash with a blue screen everytime I logged in the main console if I had remotely logged in via TerminalServices prior to that. This was happening every time I connected remotely to the box and couple of weeks earlier...

Cricket lovers around the world rejoice. Sir Gary Sobers unique feat has been acheived by Gibbs in ODI's. I dont know how to compare this with any other sporting activity to explain this. Imagine hitting six consequtive home runs in the same game, now...

I have talked a lot about WCF's extensibility model and I never knew how much of the core functionality can be extended until a recent deep dive session with one of our customers developing on WCF. The client had a multi tier application with the middle...

After I posted my earlier entry on debugging WCF apps, I thought it would be a good idea to explain the different WCF runtime blocks . This way users can see how each block/class fits in the bigger picture and how the runtime processes new channels/messages...

Update : Turns out this SP was only for the Visual Studio tools part and not for the framework. Which means the QFE wont be in this. Sorry about that (Will confirm before posting the next time).
Over the weekend, Visual Studio team released SP1 for...